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Joining us for the first time is Dr. Christopher Mont, who's a Washington Fellow at the Institute

for Peace and Diplomacy and Former Researcher and and desk officer at the U.S. Department of State.

Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Chris.

That's great to be here.

You know, it's funny.

I've been wanting to have you on the podcast for a while.

And then I think the last time I tried a couple years back, I couldn't find your email,

I couldn't send you messages on X because you don't receive messages.

And what do you know?

Just, you know, some days or weeks ago, you followed me on X so that allowed me to message

you.

And it's funny.

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